Tobias Kuhn

Welcome to my website. I am an assistant professor at VU University Amsterdam
working on the semantic web, social systems, controlled natural languages,
artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and bioinformatics.
See my CV (or its short version at the bottom of this page).

Tobias Kuhn and Michael Krauthammer.
Image Mining from Gel Diagrams in Biomedical Publications.
In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM).
2012.
PDFBibTeX

Tobias Kuhn.
Codeco: A Practical Notation for Controlled English Grammars in Predictive Editors.
In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2010).
Springer, 2012.
PDFBibTeX

Book Chapters

Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, and Tobias Kuhn.
ACE can be described by itself.
In Searching Answers — Festschrift in Honour of Michael Hess on the Occasion of His 60th
Birthday.
Monsenstein und Vannerdat, 2009.
PDFBibTeX

Juri Luca De Coi, Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, and Tobias Kuhn.
Controlled English for Reasoning on the Semantic Web.
In Semantic Techniques for the Web — The REWERSE Perspective.
Springer, 2009.
PDFBibTeX

Awards

Best RASH Paper Award at the Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly
Data (SAVE-SD 2015) at WWW 2015 for the paper Science Bots: A Model for the Future of Scientific
Computation?

1k Challenge Winner at the Beyond the PDF 2 conference in 2013 for the proposal of an
Open Scholar Foundation

Mercator Award of the University of Zurich in 2009 for my dissertation project on Controlled
English for Knowledge Representation

Best Paper Award at the Fourth Workshop on Semantic Wikis 2009 for the paper How Controlled
English Can Improve Semantic Wikis

Short CV

since 2015: Assistant professor at the Computer Science Department of the VU University Amsterdam
in the Web and Media group

2013-2015: Postdoc at the ETH Zurich in the Computational Social Science group

2015: Visiting researcher at Stanford University in the Dumontier Lab at
the Center for Biomedical Informatics Research

2014: Researcher at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) at the University of Geneva

2012: Postdoctoral associate at Yale University in the bioinformatics group of Prof.
Krauthammer

2011: Lecturer and researcher at the University of Malta in the Department of Intelligent
Computer Systems

2010: Visiting researcher at the Computer Science Department of the University of Chile in the
PLEIAD group (Programming Languages and Environments for Intelligent, Adaptable and Distributed
systems)

2006-2010: Doctoral student (and postdoc) at the Department of Informatics and the Institute of
Computational Linguistics of the University of Zurich; graduation as a Doctor in Informatics (Dr.
Inform.)

2005-2006: Visiting researcher at the Biotechnology Center of the Technical University Dresden in the
Bioinformatics group

2001-2006: Studies in Computer Science and Economics ("Wirtschaftsinformatik") at the
University of Zurich; graduation as a "Diplom-Informatiker" (Dipl. Inform.), equivalent to a
Master of Science in Computer Science